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The 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice Referendum

On October 14, 2023, Australia will go to the polls to vote on the Australian Indigenous Voice Referendum. The Referendum will ask all Australians to vote for an alteration to the Australian Constitution, creating the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to represent Indigenous Australians to the parliament and federal government on matters of Indigenous affairs.

This page contains resources on recent campaigns for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander constitutional recognition, and the 2023 Referendum regarding a Voice to Parliament.

To read the statement from our peak body, ALIA, click here.

Online resources

Voice.gov.au
The official Australian Government website for the referendum

Referendums...it's been a while
AEC - Australian Electoral Comission

The Australian Constitution

Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023
Dowloadable PDF also available here (254kb)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Address to Garma Festival, 30 July 2022

10 questions about the Voice to Parliament – answered by the experts

Yes/No case pamphlet - AEC

Fact check – how do the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ cases stack up? Constitutional experts take a look

Voice FACTS videos
University of Melbourne

Uluru Statement from the Heart

Voice to Parliament – Reconciliation Australia

National Indigenous Australian Agency

Yes ‘23
Official website for the ‘Yes’ Campaign

Fair Australia
Official website for the 'No' Campaign

Here’s what we know so far about the No campaigns
(NITV/SBS Australia)

VAN Referendum 2023 Tapes Project podcast
(Victorian Aboriginal News)

The Voice to Parliament Handbook webinar (60 mins)
with Thomas Mayo and Kerry O'Brien

Voice to Parliament: Debunking 10 myths and misconceptions

ABC Fact Check

From the heart: Kerry O’Brien in conversation with Rachel Perkins

State Library Australia – Referendum guide

Ensuring safety of our local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community
Media statement from Djaara, Bendigo NAIDOC Week Commitee, Reconciliation Bendigo and Bendigo and Disctrict Co-Operative

Constitutional recognition campaigns

Indigenous Voice Co-design Process
Final Report to the Australian Government, 2021

Uluru Statement from the Heart
First Nations National Constitutional Convention, 2017.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People Recognition Act 2013
Committed Parliament to placing before the Australian people at a referendum a proposal for constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Referendum Council Final Report, 2017.

Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition Relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

Recognise campaign
This campaign wound up in 2017, after the constitutional summit rejected the campaign's goals, and produced the Uluru Statement as its preferred model. This is a snapshot of their website from 2013.

Recommendations on constitutional recognition
From the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, 2000.